Words starting with a-l-o-n
Maybe these words will be useful:
- a-line dress — a dress that gradually becomes wider from top to bottom, similar to an A in shape
- a-life — Artificial Life
- a-line — (of a garment, esp a skirt or dress) flaring slightly from the waist or shoulders
- a-list — An A-list celebrity is a celebrity who is very famous indeed.
- a-language — (language) An early ALGOL-like surface syntax for Lisp.
- a-law — (standard) The ITU-T standard for nonuniform quantising logarithmic compression. The equation for A-law is | A | ------- (m/mp) |m/mp| =< 1/A | 1+ln A y = | | sgn(m) | ------ (1 + ln A|m/mp|) 1/A =< |m/mp| =< 1 | 1+ln A Values of u=100 and 255, A=87.6, mp is the Peak message value, m is the current quantised message value. (The formulae get simpler if you substitute x for m/mp and sgn(x) for sgn(m); then -1 <= x <= 1.) Converting from u-LAW to A-LAW introduces quantising errors. u-law is used in North America and Japan, and A-law is used in Europe and the rest of the world and international routes.